Gustav Hausmann (23 July 1827,
Göttingen - 13 April 1899,
Hanover) was a German painter; primarily of mountain landscapes.
[Holger Grimm:" Hausmann, Gustav". In: '' Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon'', Vol.70, de Gruyter, Berlin 2011, , pg.226]
Biography
Born in a small village, he attended the
gymnasium in
Goslar, where his talent for painting was first noticed. This resulted in a scholarship, mediated by the and awarded by Crown Prince George (later
King George V). This enabled him to study landscape painting under
Edmund Koken
Johann Gottfried Edmund Koken (4 June 1814, Hanover - 30 October 1872, Hanover) was a German landscape and portrait painter.
Biography
He was born to Edmund Burchard Theophilus Koken, a professional soldier with twenty-two years of service, and ...
at the
Polytechnischen Schule in Hannover. He was there from 1845 to 1850. After that, he went to
Munich where he was a student of ,
Christian Morgenstern and
In 1856 he returned to Hanover, joined the and soon became one of that city's most prominent painters.
[ Hugo Thielen: "Hausmann, (2) Gustav." In: ''Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon.'' Schlütersche, 2002, pgs.156–157]
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From 1862 to 1865, he was employed as an art teacher for the Hanoverian princesses,
Frederica und
Marie. Even after the family had fled to Austria, in 1866, when Hanover was annexed by the
Kingdom of Prussia, he continued to receive commissions from the princesses' mother,
Queen Marie.
During those years he lived in seclusion, but continued to paint landscapes of the
Bavarian Alps
The Bavarian Alps (german: Bayerische Alpen) is a collective name for several mountain ranges of the Northern Limestone Alps within the German state of Bavaria.
Geography
The term in its wider sense refers to that part of the Eastern Alps that ...
and
Harz Mountains.
By 1874, he was able to buy his own home. Following his death, the Hannoverscher Künstlerverein held a memorial exhibition, consisting of over 150 oil sketches.
His youngest daughter, Lisa, married
Hermann Löns, a journalist and author known as the "Poet of the Heath".
References
Further reading
* Wilhelm Rothert: ''Allgemeine Hannoversche Biografie.'' Vol.2: "Im Alten Königreich Hannover 1814–1866." Sponholz, Hanover 1914, pg.541
* Reinhold Behrens: ''Gustav Hausmann. Ausstellung in der
Niedersächsischen Landesgalerie, Hannover, Mai–Juni 1955'', Vol.6, 1955
* "Hausmann, Gustav". In: Hans Vollmer (Ed.): ''Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler'' (
Thieme-Becker), Vol.16: Hansen–Heubach. E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1923, pg.148
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1827 births
1899 deaths
German painters
German landscape painters
Artists from Hanover